“Samsung and Google have closely collaborated to push the mobile experience forward. We are pleased to deliver the best Android smartphone experience for customers with GALAXY Nexus. We will continue to move forward with Android to provide the compelling consumer experience in mobile world,” said JK Shin, President and Head of Samsung’s Mobile Communications Business.

“Ice Cream Sandwich demonstrates the Android platform’s continued innovation with one release that works on phones and tablets and everything in between. Features like Android Beam and Face Unlock show the innovative work our team is doing, and GALAXY Nexus showcases the power behind Ice Cream Sandwich,” said Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President of Mobile for Google.

The first smartphone to feature Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich

Ice Cream Sandwich brings an entirely new look and feel to Android. It has a redesigned user interface with improved multi-tasking, notifications, Wi-Fi hotspot, NFC support and a full web browsing experience. GALAXY Nexus features software navigation buttons, a first for Android smartphones. The lock screen, home screen, phone app, and everything in between has been rethought and redesigned to make Android simple, beautiful, and useful.

Ice Cream Sandwich also features a new People app, which lets you, browse friends, family, and coworkers, see their photos in high-resolution, and check their latest status updates from Google+ and other social networks. GALAXY Nexus features a redesigned camera which introduces panorama mode, 1080p video capture, zero-shutter lag, and effects like silly faces and background replacement.

GALAXY Nexus is also connected to the cloud, keeping your email, contacts, and all other data synced across your devices. You have access to more than 300,000 apps and games from Android Market™, or, in certain countries, you can buy and read books, or rent movies and stream them instantly from your phone. In the U.S., you can also upload your music to the cloud with Music Beta by Google and listen anywhere, even when offline.

GALAXY Nexus is designed to provide a “pure Google,” experience, and with it, you will be the first to receive software upgrades and new applications as they become available. It also features a number of Google Mobile services, including: Android Market, Gmail™, Google Maps™ 5.0 with 3D maps and turn-by-turn navigation, Google Earth™, Movie Studio, YouTube™, syncing with Google Calendar™, and a redesigned Google+ app.

Best-in-class hardware meets the most advanced software

GALAXY Nexus is the first smartphone to feature a 4.65’’ display with a market-leading resolution of 720p (1280x720), ensuring you can enjoy GALAXY Nexus’ immersive entertainment capabilities and fast web browsing in superior clarity.

Succeeding the original Contour Display of Nexus S, GALAXY Nexus comes with a rounded shape that fits perfectly within your palm or to your face for phone calling. Hyper-skin backing on the battery cover improves the ergonomic feel of the device and makes the phone slip-resistant. At just 8.94mm thick, with a minimal 4.29mm bezel, GALAXY Nexus provides superb portability alongside an expansive screen.

GALAXY Nexus also features an ultra-fast 1.2GHz dual core processor, providing superior power and speed, ensuring you can take full advantage of GALAXY Nexus’ enhanced multitasking capabilities with ease, or enjoy the large, vivid display to its full capacity with high-definition gaming or video streaming. LTE or HSPA+ connectivity combined with a dual core processor delivers high-speed web browsing which ensures you always have the web at your fingertips, wherever you are.

GALAXY Nexus will be available in the U.S., Europe, and Asia beginning in November and gradually rolled out to other global markets.

* All functionality, features, specifications and other product information provided in this document including, but not limited to, the benefits, design, pricing, components, performance, availability, and capabilities of the product are subject to change without notice or obligation.

About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. Employing approximately 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries, the company consists of nine independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Memory, System LSI and LCD. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.

Ron loves everything related to technology, design, and Google. He always wants to talk about "the big picture" and what's next for Android, and he's not afraid to get knee-deep in an APK for some details. Expect a good eye for detail, lots of research, and some lamenting about how something isn't designed well enough.

Comments

HSPA Means its coming to AT&T and Tmobile! Hopefully that means sprint as well, and SOON DAMMIT!

deesugar

How do you figure it will come to Sprint when Sprint won't have an LTE network ready till next year?!?

Zac

A little bummed about the camera. But it better be the best 5mp camera ever released to consumers.

ebinrock

I hope you don't still buy into that whole myth about more MP = better picture. And plus, let's face it, cameras built in to phones are really a convenience. We're lucky to get as good a picture as we get these days with them. If you really want pristine imaging for those special occasions, nothing beats a good DSLR with interchangeable lens.

gbenj

Leaked? It was handed out...No?

Ron Amadeo

Usually press releases are emailed to us (and everyone else). "Leaked" was meant to convey that it was transcribed and might not be super accurate. It clearly wasn't meant to hit the internet yet.

http://yggdrasil.net Joe Ewbank

Disappointed with the news on the camera and processor speed.

I'll wait to see the hands-on camera comparisons . . . but right now, I'm feeling VERY let down by Verizon. They skipped the SGS II . . . for this?

4s has 3 more megapixels. Nexus has zero shutter lag. Zero. I will not feed the troll any more.

IamBeast

Does anyone know if the Verizon version will come with the quadbands for world wide use?

http://xxx.com Sharp

Don't like the specs either.

azumihk

u guys complain about specs lol
ics is dual core os and gingerbread was single, u will see with this os your phone runs like a train, u guys always check spec, the graphic card from ios is better butt he proc from galaxy is better.

zulu208

it said specs differ for lte version. so maybe the higher hardware spec will be for verizon ... the 1.5; 8mp, 2000mah battery, etc

L boogie

Is there gonna be a SD card slot or no? Btw, if the camera is of high quality standards ( zero shutter lag, for instance), i won't mind at all though I'm surprised this nexus is not running Omap 4470 processor or exynos 4212, oh well, everything else is pretty much what's been speculated over the last few weeks.

Wam31

I too am surprised that there's nothing about the CPU model (OMAP ? Exynos ?).
5 MP doesn't mean anything except image size, it can be good or bad, I couldn't care less about a 8 MP. 5 is more than enough ; image quality and optics are what NEEDS to be enhanced.
One last thought : PLEASE, tell me that the f... power button is not what we can see on the right side of the phone...